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...under the title Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Past "consultants" include Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. In 1986, Robert Penn Warren was named the first official Poet Laureate Consultant. Although composing poems for state occasions has never been a requirement of the job, Howard Nemerov wrote a poem in 1989 to mark the 200th anniversary of the first meeting of Congress, and Rita Dove composed a poem when the Statue of Freedom was restored to the dome of the Capitol Building...
...Alex Nemerov of Yale University started off the proceedings swimmingly with his inspiring lecture entitled, “The Rattlesnake: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Place of Art in America.” He carefully drew out connections between a meticulous drawing of a rattlesnake and the ambiguous relationship of Americans to art during the post-Revolution years...
...Nemerov mentioned after his talk that he stumbled upon such a fascinating piece almost by accident, and that it had never attracted scholarly attention before. He spoke of how liberating it was not to be encumbered by previous literature on the topic. Less of his energy was spent shattering old myths, and more on synthesizing novel pieces of information and discovering through a sharpened focus “relations, connections, affinities within a culture that it may not even...
Smith College’s John Davis, like Nemerov, was quick to acknowledge the academic value of what he calls “microhistory” the use of a narrowly focused time and place to reveal greater trends in a culture...
...think of Arbus as so quintessentially modern that it's a shock to remember that she was a child of the flapper age and the Depression. She was born Diane (she pronounced it Dee-ann) Nemerov in New York City in 1923. Her father was the director of Russek's, a Manhattan fur and fashion emporium that had been founded by her mother's family and made them rich. Arbus, her younger sister Renee and her older brother Howard--later a U.S. poet laureate--grew up on Park Avenue. She spoke once of realizing the existence of another world...